Playing around with cfg technique, I'm finding that turning off guidance at the 40% mark causes requested fine details to not appear in the final image. This sorta implies that switching cfg midway and/or switching prompt vectors might be interesting from a prompting standpoint, but it kinda kills it as a performance optimization.

https://imgur.com/a/47D6MEl demonstrates, prompt is “Praying Mantis, looking out a living room window, (hyperrealism:1.2), (8K UHD:1.2), (photorealistic:1.2), shot with Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, detailed bug, macro” with 50 steps, cutting off cfg at 20 steps vs using cfg all the way through in the normal fashon.

I don’t know man, out of the box on SD-Next it’s about 3-4 secs for a picture at 1024 with UniPC and 20 steps on a 4090

It's a bit weird to talk about steps but not about the sampler (20 steps with Euler vs 20 steps in DPM+2M Karras are pretty different beasts both in terms of speed and quality).

I also see compiling but no AITemplate, which seems to be the among the hottest way to speed-up SD recently.

This could save alot of money on Replicate.ai

Especially if you are charging your users the same 1,000% markup while your own costs have been cut into 1/3rd and deliver results faster